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Originally Posted by Saul Good
It doesn't mean more to your average KU fan than it does to me personally. I live in Kansas, 40 minutes from Lawrence. I deal with beakers on a daily basis. The same isn't true of people in St. Louis. It's still a big rivalry, but it doesn't feel the same when you're 5 hours away from the other state.
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I guess I could see that for an MU fan in St. Louis, who might end up hating Illinois more or whatever... but, for anyone who went to either school, I don't think it really goes away just because you live in St. Louis and not KC.
Like I said, the whole "who cares more" thing is about superiority.... KU FB would cling onto beating Mizzou, but KU BB just wants to escape Columbia with a victory. And it's the opposite for MU. I've lived with MU fans, and of course they're everywhere around KC, but it doesn't mean I
really care about the rivalry.
If MU goes to the SEC, of course they aren't going to miss playing KU in football every season, and I don't see why they would want to schedule an out of conference rival when the SEC is already going to be brutal. And I don't think KU would miss MU in BB, which is probably one reason Self said they won't go out of their way to schedule them.